A Serious Man - Understanding Life's Unexpected Lessons
Friend at the Picnic:
Sometimes these things just aren't meant to be. And it can take a while before you feel what was always there, for better or worse.
Larry Gopnik:
I never felt it! It was a bolt from the blue! What does that mean! Everything that I thought was one way turns out to be another.
Friend at the Picnic:
Then-it's an opportunity to learn how things really are. I'm sorry-I don't mean to sound glib. It's not always easy, deciphering what God is trying to tell you.
Larry Gopnik:
I'll say.
Friend at the Picnic:
But it's not something you have to figure out all by yourself. We're Jews, we have that well of tradition to draw on, to help us understand. When we're puzzled we have all the stories that have been handed down from people who had the same problems.
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The Man Who Wasn't There - The Value of Knowledge and Enthusiasm
Jacques Carcanogues: [to Ed, after Birdy's piano audition]
Nice girl. Someday, I think, maybe, she make a very good typist.
Birdy Abundas:
You know what you are? An enthusiast.
Ann Nirdlinger Brewster:
Knowledge can be a curse.
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